For professionals who can’t slow down, couples feeling disconnected, and people tired of surviving instead of living.
Virtual therapy available in New York, North Carolina, and Florida.
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“Therapy with Jason felt like real change instead of just more talking.”
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“For the first time, therapy actually felt productive.”
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“I finally stopped feeling like anxiety was my baseline.”
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You Look Fine. Your Nervous System Disagrees.
You’re answering emails at dinner, mentally rehearsing tomorrow, and calling it “relaxing” when you finally get 20 minutes to scroll your phone or push through another record breaking run just to avoid slowing down long enough to feel what’s actually going on.
You’ve gotten really good at staying productive and holding it together even when your brain feels one inconvenience away from completely spiraling.
Maybe people think you’re effortlessly “on top of things,” while internally you feel anxious, disconnected, and emotionally checked out.
When the LinkedIn self help recommendations aren’t cutting it.
After finally making time for your mental health, your brain stops acting like every little thing needs your immediate attention. You’re actually present at dinner instead of mentally halfway through tomorrow, weekends can feel relaxing instead of like mandatory “catch up” days, and you stop feeling weirdly guilty for slowing down.
Your relationships feel closer, your patience comes back, and life starts feeling a lot less like something you’re constantly trying to manage. You worked hard for this life. Therapy helps you actually feel like you’re living it.
Why we’re different.
A lot of people already understand their patterns intellectually. They know why they’re stressed, anxious, emotionally shut down, or stuck, but knowing does not always stop the cycle.
My focus is on creating fast, long lasting results. We are not here to sit in the problem forever. We are here to understand it, break it down, and create a plan that changes your life.
Therapy here is direct, collaborative, personalized to you, and about moving you forward.
That looks like real conversations, practical tools, and work that actually translates into your relationships, career, emotions, and everyday life.
Our Specialties
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High Achievers & Professionals
For people whose entire personality accidentally became productivity, performance, overthinking, and pretending they’re not exhausted.
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Couples Therapy
For couples stuck somewhere between “we’re fine” and “we can’t keep doing this.”
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Trauma and Avoidant Patterns
For people who learned to stay guarded, handle everything alone, and act “fine” for so long that slowing down or letting people in now feels uncomfortable.
There’s no one therapy style that works for everyone, and trying to force people into one rigid approach usually misses the mark.
Some people need structure and strategy. Some need deeper trauma work. Some need help understanding why their brain treats every emotionally uncomfortable moment like a five-alarm emergency.
We pull from approaches like:
✓ EMDR
✓ CBT
✓ ACT
✓ Attachment work
✓ Gottman Method Couples Therapy
✓ Emotional regulation work
✓ Behavioral strategies
✓ And more…
The goal isn’t to keep you in therapy forever, it's helping you create real change in your relationships, career, emotions, and everyday life outside of session.
What healing looks like:
→ Feeling calm without needing to stay constantly busy or distracted.
→ Having hard conversations without immediately shutting down or getting defensive.
→ Feeling emotionally connected instead of just “functionally present”.
→ Resting without feeling guilty after five minutes of downtime.
→ Trusting yourself more and overthinking less.
→ Actually enjoying your life instead of just managing it.
Welcome, we’re Rising Tide Therapy.
Most people who end up here are high functioning, successful in their communities, self aware, and really good at handling life externally while internally feeling stressed, emotionally checked out, overwhelmed, or like their brain forgot how to relax sometime after college graduation.
Therapy here feels more like a real conversation than some cold, painfully clinical experience where someone silently nods at you for 50 minutes. We talk about real life, real patterns, real stress, and create an actual plan forward so you can stop feeling like you’re constantly managing life instead of actually living it.
Meet the Clinicians
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Jason Alicea, LMHC, LCMHC
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Carolyn Cutillo, LMHC